Fertile Crescent

English

The extent of the Fertile Crescent.

Etymology

Coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːtaɪl ˈkɹɛsənt/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝːtəl ˈkɹɛsənt/

Proper noun

the Fertile Crescent

(historical) A crescent-shaped strip of fertile land stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey and down the Syrian and Israeli coasts.
- 1914, James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Charles Austin Beard, Outlines of European History: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece, and Rome:
  This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the fertile crescent.

Translations

crescent-shaped arc of fertile land

Arabic: الهلال الخصيب‎ m
Armenian: Բարեբեր կիսալուսին (Bareber kisalusin)
Azerbaijani: Bərəkətli Hilal
Catalan: Creixent Fèrtil m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 新月沃土 (xīnyuè wòtǔ)
Estonian: Viljakas poolkuu
Finnish: hedelmällinen puolikuu
French: Croissant fertile (fr)
Georgian: ნოყიერი ნახევარმთვარე (noq̇ieri naxevarmtvare)
German: Fruchtbarer Halbmond (de) m

Hebrew: הסהר הפורה‎
Irish: Corrán Méith m
Japanese: 肥沃な三日月地帯 (hiyoku na mikazuki chitai)
Korean: 비옥한 초승달 지대 (biokhan choseungdal jidae)
Persian: هلال حاصلخیز‎ (helâl-e-hâselxiz)
Polish: Żyzny Półksiężyc (pl) m
Portuguese: Crescente Fértil f
Russian: (rare) плодородный полуме́сяц (plodorodnyj polumésjac)
Spanish: Creciente fértil
Turkish: Bereketli Hilal
Welsh: Cilgant Toreithiog m

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